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The early promo I saw was on bethesdas youtube page and they own doom now.
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The latest Mythbusters episode has revealed a new  for me: Jamie giggling during the construction of something. Not when something goes wrong, not when there's something salient to giggle about, just when he's building something and he has a giggle fit during it.
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Feb 8, 2015 04:07
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This "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"... I like it. Yeah it's the old "macho dumb military jock vs. brainy expert" formula from Dual Survival, only applied to Mythbusters-style science experiments. And more importantly, the hosts play up those stereotypes but they actually seem to like each other (contrast with Cody/Dave or Adam/Jamie). I guess it only started tonight but I'd be down to watch more. With Mythbusters essentially axing half their programming, this might be a good option to air back-to-back. edit: ahaha the Fresnel lens build.  "Don't put your hand in it!"
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Feb 8, 2015 07:24
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I loved the builds for both the motorcycle and the floating bikes. I do miss having Grant around but the show is undeniably great again. Zero clunkers at all since it came back.
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Feb 8, 2015 17:11
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I do sort of miss those drawings that are hand drawn before each myth is introduced.
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Feb 8, 2015 17:54
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Hazo posted:This "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"... I like it. Yeah it's the old "macho dumb military jock vs. brainy expert" formula from Dual Survival, only applied to Mythbusters-style science experiments. And more importantly, the hosts play up those stereotypes but they actually seem to like each other (contrast with Cody/Dave or Adam/Jamie). I guess it only started tonight but I'd be down to watch more. With Mythbusters essentially axing half their programming, this might be a good option to air back-to-back. If you haven't watched Dual Survival recently, Matt Graham replaced Cody this season, for a notable improvement. Having hosts that don't look at each other with thinly veiled contempt actually makes it worth watching again. I don't miss the content cut from Mythbusters, the show is really enjoyable for the first time in years.
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Feb 8, 2015 18:07
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I hope they revisit some myths from the build team era under the new style. It's not like it is unprecedented anyway.
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Feb 8, 2015 19:21
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Mraagvpeine posted:I do sort of miss those drawings that are hand drawn before each myth is introduced. I miss them too. The new look is a bit too slick, the drawings suited a couple of guys banging something together in a machine shop.
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Feb 15, 2015 03:02
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Didn't Tanner Foust talk a blind guy through drifting a car into a parking space on Top Gear US? In fact, this would be a really good episode of Top Gear. howe_sam fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Feb 15, 2015 03:15
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That poor car they bought. They trashed the poo poo out of it.
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Feb 15, 2015 04:44
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You can see Adam's full penis outline when he puts on the racing suit before they do the race course.
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e: wrong thread
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Wish they could have tested an AWD car, too. There's a reason rally cars drift around tighter corners.
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Feb 16, 2015 02:56
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Kind of crazy that that was listed as the season finale. Pretty short season.
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muscles like this? posted:Kind of crazy that that was listed as the season finale. Pretty short season. Are you kidding me? That was the whole season? gently caress.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Wish they could have tested an AWD car, too. There's a reason rally cars drift around tighter corners. It has to do with friction coefficients and differences between asphalt and dirt/gravel. Driving normal is faster on the road, drifting is faster off the road.
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Feb 16, 2015 05:24
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Deadliest Catch is back on April 14th. It's the same drat thing every year and every year I get super excited and watch every second. Hooray
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DC Is still worth it if you care about the ongoing saga (lol) of the Hansens and Harrises. Nobody cares about Wild Bill, the less said about Elliot the better, Keith is a madman who sends his crews on suicidal tasks, and the Hillstrands... eh. I'm indifferent towards them.
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My only fear is that Elliot and his goddamned drama threatens to turn this show into any of the many overly faked clones of this show. That poo poo with him being served his papers was almost like something out of Ax-Men.
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kefkafloyd posted:DC Is still worth it if you care about the ongoing saga (lol) of the Hansens and Harrises. Nobody cares about Wild Bill, the less said about Elliot the better, Keith is a madman who sends his crews on suicidal tasks, and the Hillstrands... eh. I'm indifferent towards them. I really hope Josh succeeds and I'll always love the Hansen's
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Mar 21, 2015 18:46
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I see where Les Stroud is coming back with more Bigfoot bullshit.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I see where Les Stroud is coming back with more Bigfoot bullshit. I remember seeing a commercial for that. I kept forgetting to ask whether or not that show was for real.
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Whatever minimal amount of merit or virtue Deadliest Catch has or had, it can go gently caress itself for spawning a dozen lovely copycat shows about Alaska.
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Mar 24, 2015 19:45
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I had no idea how far Jake Harris has fallen in the last 3-4 years. In the newest DC they revealed that he broke into one of Phil's old pads and stole a bunch of stuff to keep his drug habit afloat.
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Kazak_Hstan posted:Whatever minimal amount of merit or virtue Deadliest Catch has or had, it can go gently caress itself for spawning a dozen lovely copycat shows about Alaska.
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Chromatic posted:I had no idea how far Jake Harris has fallen in the last 3-4 years. In the newest DC they revealed that he broke into one of Phil's old pads and stole a bunch of stuff to keep his drug habit afloat. Yeah, this episode about the Harris brothers and the Cornelia Marie is  as gently caress. I still miss Phil, he was by far my favorite captain.
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Apr 22, 2015 04:33
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Yeah that shitdick grifter didn't help. And robbing people to support a drug habit is the truest story discovery has ever told about commercial fishing. If I ever want to get coked up and gently caress randos the first place I'll go is the Dillingham boat yard.
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I had no idea this show was back but THANKFULLY I managed to hopefully get my DVR set up to catch me up. And I luckily just caught the Cornelia Marie special while I was doing so.
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Discovery seems to be shoveling as much money as they can at Josh Harris, which is good because he deserves it. Glad to see Sig is still an obsessive maniac, the Hillstrands are normal, Wild Bill has no people skills, Keith is a rage machine, and Elliot hasn't learned anything from rehab. Nothing ever changes.
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May 3, 2015 07:08
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Did Elliot say he had the biggest quota of the fleet for King Crab? How do people keep trusting him with so much responsibility? The sad thing is, he shows flashes of absolute brilliance. Last episode he seemed to handle his winch completely breaking off very well. Also, with the CM having been out of the show for a while, it would seem that she is very much interested in reclaiming her title as most broken boat from the Time Bandit. Edgar is weird. He didn't seem all too broken up about missing his shot at a full, huge season of Bairdi crab as captain. I mean it would seem that his injury is legit, after the doctor visit, but he really seemed more relieved to not be able to do it than anything else. We've seen enough heartbreak on the show to be able to read it on people's faces, and he didn't seem heart broken at all.
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Well the reality is at this point the Hansens probably make more money from the show (and the Northwestern in particular exploits this - see its appearance in Pixar's Cars for example) than they would ever make from actual crab fishing, as lucrative as it is. So I mean of course he doesn't really care that much, that or it really is that painful, who knows. In a weird way Edgar having to sit out due to an injury creates a plot point in that whole Sig not letting Edgar be an equal partner narrative they've been playing with for awhile.
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May 3, 2015 18:38
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How they've managed to get six episodes out of Survivorman Bigfoot is beyond me. My respect for Les has dropped.
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May 3, 2015 19:40
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ToastyPotato posted:Did Elliot say he had the biggest quota of the fleet for King Crab? How do people keep trusting him with so much responsibility? Maybe he's also doing that deal where he leases quota from other boats.
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IRQ posted:Well the reality is at this point the Hansens probably make more money from the show (and the Northwestern in particular exploits this - see its appearance in Pixar's Cars for example) than they would ever make from actual crab fishing, as lucrative as it is. So I mean of course he doesn't really care that much, that or it really is that painful, who knows. I don't know what the profits are for crab fishing. But if the crew shares each season are any indication, it is highly unlikely any crab boat is making equal money or greater from Discovery Channel. Reality TV exists because it costs a fraction of scripted television. Crew members on these boats already seem to be pulling anywhere from $50k to $85k+ on just two crab seasons, not counting the other fisheries they don't show on the show (the boats work more than twice a year.) I'd imagine captains and boat owners make more, assuming they operate like a normal business. Obviously, I am not meaning to draw comparison to the incomes of the cast of Big Bang Theory, who make millions, to reality TV cast members. When I say scripted television, I am not only referring to the top rated, most expensive shows on TV. But hey, I might be wrong and perhaps Discovery is shelling out millions (across the fleet) for the show. I've never looked up the ratings, but I imagine the show would have to be far, FAR ahead of not just anything else on the channel, but on other competing channels and time slots to warrant that kind of expense.
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Mister Kingdom posted:How they've managed to get six episodes out of Survivorman Bigfoot is beyond me. My respect for Les has dropped. I caught an episode of this, so my experience is based only on the one. He treats it super skeptically and often comes up with real reasons why the loons he's going out with think they see bigfoot. He's not going out on his own because he thinks he's gonna find it. The impression I get is Discovery is paying him to show how silly these people looking for bigfoot are. Though like you said, six episodes. Les probably likes money like the rest of us, it turns out.
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Gazaar posted:I caught an episode of this, so my experience is based only on the one. He treats it super skeptically and often comes up with real reasons why the loons he's going out with think they see bigfoot. He's not going out on his own because he thinks he's gonna find it. The impression I get is Discovery is paying him to show how silly these people looking for bigfoot are. The premise sounds like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures, where both shows have teams of non-scientists who pretend to be skeptical and debunk things, but never come out and say, "hey this is bullshit and not real, also here is some weird stuff we can't explain so maybe ghosts are real?" Unless Les is an out and out skeptic on bigfoot and the show really goes hard in its debunking things. I thought he believed in bigfoot though, from what I remembered hearing or reading somewhere.
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ToastyPotato posted:Unless Les is an out and out skeptic on bigfoot and the show really goes hard in its debunking things. I thought he believed in bigfoot though, from what I remembered hearing or reading somewhere. That was the impression I got when he did that two part special.
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If he actually believes that's cool I guess, but his tone when talking about the believers made it sound otherwise. Either way Les would have to be into some way gnarlier poo poo for me to lose respect for him, dude is hard as gently caress.
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ToastyPotato posted:Obviously, I am not meaning to draw comparison to the incomes of the cast of Big Bang Theory, who make millions, to reality TV cast members. When I say scripted television, I am not only referring to the top rated, most expensive shows on TV. But hey, I might be wrong and perhaps Discovery is shelling out millions (across the fleet) for the show. I've never looked up the ratings, but I imagine the show would have to be far, FAR ahead of not just anything else on the channel, but on other competing channels and time slots to warrant that kind of expense. The Northwestern/Hansens make money not through direct salary/compensation for filming, they make money because they are pretty savvy at leveraging their role and fame in the show into real world merchandise. You have Northwestern coffee, which you drink out a Norhwestern mug, while reading Sig Hansen's book. In your Norwestern boxer-briefs in front of your framed picture of Edgar.
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